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Thunderbird craps on my head
I hate to be down on Thunderbird, which I use as my default mail client in Windows XP. But today I turn on the box, start Thunderbird, and things don’t go well. Since I have two IMAP accounts plus...
View ArticleOpenBSD 4.4 update: Opera fixed, laptop runs great with 768 MB of RAM
Time’s short, so I’ll hit the high points: The fix for all the problems I was having in Opera 9.51 (the Linux version) in OpenBSD was easy. All I had to do was change from asynchronous DNS lookup to...
View ArticleThunderbird flaw: Is lack of built-in export function intentional or just...
The fact that Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client has no built-in way to export the whole of a user’s mail from one installation to another is as close to a fatal flaw as can be for a class of...
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Thunderbird and Lightning (very, very frightening … or not so much) in Ubuntu
Here’s my problem. I need a calendar app that rudely beeps to tell me when to go to meetings and such. In Ubuntu, that means the Evolution mail client, which has an extensive calendar function, or so...
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Getting Mozilla’s Lightning/Iceowl to work in Thunderbird/Icedove
We all know that due to the copyright of the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation/whatever-it-is, that the Debian project decided awhile ago to drop the copyrighted logos and names from the very popular...
View ArticleBacking up Thunderbird is a pain in the a@@
I’m a stickler for backups. I do them all the time. I make more than one copy. The worst thing about my backups is Thunderbird mail. I POP the mail down to my local computer for various reasons, and if...
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